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Chelsea have strengthened their defensive options by completing the signing of Antonio Rüdiger on a five-year contract from Roma, with the Germany defender joining the Premier League champions for an initial £29m. The fee for the 24-year-old could rise as high as £34m with add-ons for a player who has won 17 caps for Germany and made four appearances in their triumphant Confederations Cup campaign in Russia, including starting in the final against Chile, which they won 1-0. Rüdiger moves to England after two years at the Serie A club, whom he initially joined on a season-long loan from Stuttgart, Alec Ogletree Youth Jersey and will help fill the void left by John Terry’s departure for Aston Villa under freedom of contract. Chelsea also sold Nathan Aké to Bournemouth for £20m. “It’s a great feeling because not every player has the opportunity to join a huge club like this,” Rüdiger said. “I am looking forward to meeting up with my new team-mates and I’m very proud to officially become a Chelsea player.” The Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte, had made clear the need to reinforce the team’s back-line in readiness for their return to the Champions League, http://www.losangelesramsauthorizedstore.com/aaron-donald-jersey-elite and had initially hoped the club would succeed in luring either Virgil van Dijk or Leonardo Bonucci to Stamford Bridge. Yet the valuations placed on those players by Southampton and Juventus respectively had prompted Chelsea to consider other options with Rüdiger, for all that he cost Roma an initial £3.5m plus a further £7.9m when making his move permanent last summer, a more attractive option. “We are pleased to be able to bring in a player of proven quality who adds to our defensive options,” the Chelsea technical director, Authentic A'Shawn Robinson Youth JerseyMichael Emenalo, said. “Antonio is still young but is experienced at club and international level and possesses all the requisite attributes to thrive in the Premier League. We have been aware of him for some time and we are confident he will fit in well with the squad.” Rüdiger, who was the subject of racial abuse by Lazio fans at the Rome derby in March, has most often been used at centre-half, but could operate at right-back if required. The 6ft 3in defender would appear to be competing most obviously with César Azpilicueta as the right-sided of Chelsea’s three centre-halves in Conte’s favoured system, though the Italian is hoping to have at least two senior players competing for each place in his starting lineup. Terry, who has signed an initial one-year deal at Villa Park, was only a bit-part player last season and could yet be followed by Kurt Zouma in departing the club, despite the 22-year-old French defender apparently being resistant to a loan move. Chelsea have also welcomed the talented young defender, http://www.officialauthenticlions.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_AMEER_ABDULLAH_JERSEY.htmlAndreas Christensen, back from a two-year loan spell at Borussia Mönchengladbach to bolster their options. Conte has been frustrated this summer at the club’s apparent toils in the transfer market, with Willy Caballero, who moved on a free transfer from Manchester City, and the teenager Ethan Ampadu, from Exeter City, Chelsea’s only arrivals prior to Rüdiger. Meanwhile, a deal has been agreed in principle for the Monaco midfielder, Tiemoué Bakayoko, for around £40m and negotiations continue with Juventus over their left wing-back, Alex Sandro, who would cost a club record £61m. Chelsea had hoped to eclipse any club record again by re-signing the striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton before the player opted to join Manchester United. Conte had targeted Lukaku as his first-choice replacement for the outgoing Diego Costa and while his exasperation was initially made clear to the Chelsea hierarchy, who failed to complete a deal for the Belgian, his ire is now increasingly directed at the player and his agent, Mino Raiola. The champions must now decide whether to reignite their long-standing interest in Real Madrid’s Álvaro Morata – who had previously been targeted by United – or bid for the Torino forward, Andrea Belotti, whose buy-out clause is set at £87m. There is interest, too, in Arsenal’s Alexis Sánchez though the hierarchy at the Emirates stadium would be reluctant to lose the Chilean to rivals from across the capital.

Dom Dwyer scored for the second straight game but Miguel Camarago’s goal gave Jason Spriggs Jersey Panama a 1-1 tie Saturday against the United States, the first time the Americans failed to win their opener in the Concacaf Gold Cup. After scoring in his US debut last weekend against Ghana, the England-born Dwyer put the Americans ahead in the 50th minute with a left-footed shot from 9 yards that went in off the far post. Dwyer, the husband of US women’s team forward Sydney Leroux, ran onto a cross from Kelyn Rowe following a throw-in by Jorge Villafana. Panama put on immediate pressure, and Camargo sent a rebound past the outstretched right hand of Brad Guzan in the 60th minute after the goalkeeper saved an initial shot by Gabriel Torres that followed Edgar Barcenas’ cross. Gold Cup 2017: USA 1-1 Panama – as it happened Minute-by-minute report: The United States and Panama settled for a 1-1 draw in their Gold Cup opener on Saturday at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium Read more The US had won its previous 13 Gold Cup openers and dropped to 30-1-4 in Gold Cup group-stage http://www.greenbaypackersauthorizedstore.com/jordy-nelson-jersey-elite play, with the lone defeat against Los Canaleros in 2011. The last four matches between the nations have ended in 1-1 ties. “We didn’t play well on the day,” US coach Bruce Arena said. “We didn’t deal well with their pressure, especially in the midfield.” Next up for the US is a Wednesday match against Martinique in Tampa, Florida. The Americans finish group play next Saturday against Nicaragua in Cleveland. Like most nations, the US is not using most of its top players in the 12-team tournament, preferring to test its junior varsity before World Cup qualifying resumes in September. Just six players started from the among the 22 who opened the March qualifier between the teams in Panama City, including American center back Omar Gonzalez and Villafana. On an afternoon with temperatures in the high 80s, there was a hydration break in the first half and action slowed in the latter stages. The crowd of http://www.sandiegochargersauthorizedstore.com/joey-bosa-jersey-elite 47,622 was the largest for a soccer match in Tennessee. Dwyer joined teammate Paul Arriola in scoring goals in his first two international matches, a feat accomplished by nine US players since 1916. Advertisement Panama nearly tied the game five minutes later. Torres’ header was saved by Guzan with his last hand, and Ismael Diaz’s effort off the rebound sailed high. Camargo’s goal was his second for the national team. He also scored against Chile last year in the Copa America at Philadelphia. The US is winless on three Gold Cup matches, its longest skid. The US lost to Jamaica in the 2015 semi-finals and dropped the third-place game to Panama in penalty kicks. Alejandro Bedoya and Gonzalez started in place of Arriola and Matt Hedges. Midfielder Dax McCarty made his first competitive appearance after playing in nine exhibition games since 2009. Major League Josh Lambo Womens Jersey Soccer commissioner Don Garber was on hand. Nashville is among the cities hoping to get an MLS expansion team

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Leicester City are hopeful of signing Kelechi Iheanacho from Manchester City for a deal of around £25m. The 20-year-old Nigerian has other clubs pursuing him and Manchester City do not expect any transfer to be completed for another couple of weeks, but Leicester are at the front of the queue after putting together Kelly Hrudey Womens Jersey a financial package that would take their summer spending past £50m. Iheanacho is highly rated at City and has an impressive record, scoring 21 goals from 64 games despite more than half of those appearances being from the bench. Yet he started only five Premier League matches last season and that situation is unlikely to improve with Sergio Agüero and Gabriel Jesus competing to be City’s first-choice centre forward. Craig Shakespeare, Leicester’s manager, has already signed Harry McGuire from Hull City and the Sevilla midfielder Vicente Iborra for a combined total of £29m. Iheanacho would require an even bigger outlay but Leicester are in a position to be able to meet City’s demands for a player who has plenty of potential and is seen as a natural goalscorer. Meanwhile, Watford have joined Newcastle and West Ham in the race for Joe Hart, as they seek to simultaneously increase the number of homegrown players in their squad and land a marquee signing to help establish the club as serious players in the Premier League. The Hornets are preparing for their third successive season in the top flight, having finished http://www.officialkingsteamstore.com/Kyle_Clifford_Jerseytheir last in 17th place after losing their final six matchesTheir current No1, Heurelho Gomes, has excelled since arriving at Vicarage Road three years ago, starting precisely 120 league games. He was named player of the season in 2016 and came second in the voting last season, but at 36 is coming towards the end of his career. Hart is unwanted at Manchester City and is considering his options, with West Ham and Newcastle also keen to sign him. Earlier on Thursday, the Manchester City striker Toni Duggan signed a two-year contract with Barcelona. The 25-year-old told her new club’s website: “For me, Barcelona are the biggest club in the world and naturally I wanted to come here. “I have had a lot of success in England but I want to have even more. I think I need another trophy on my list and I know that Barça’s ambition is to win the Champions League. This is my goal, tooBob Higgins, a former youth coach at Southampton, has been charged with 65 counts of non-recent sexual abuse against boys and is due in court this month. Higgins, 64, will appear at West Hampshire magistrates court in Southampton on 20 July to face allegations relating to 23 complainants. All the alleged offences are understood to be indecent assault. Higgins was a coach in Southampton’s junior system in the 1980s and worked as Peterborough United’s youth-team manager from May 1995 to April 1996 as well as running his own soccer school. He was still involved in football, working with adults at Fleet Town, when the police investigation began last year. “Detectives Glenn Anderson Youth Jersey have charged a man in connection with an investigation into non-recent child abuse within the footballing community,” Hampshire police said in a statement. “These offences relate to allegations involving teenage boys and are alleged to have happened in the 1980s and 1990s. There is a total of 23 alleged victimsYou may have missed the latest race of the Mountain Bike World Cup in Andorra, where Troy Brosnan won the elite men’s downhill race by just 0.22 seconds, equivalent to about a five-foot margin, ahead of Greg Minnaar. Danny Hart took third in what was probably the wildest, if not the quickest, run of the day: check out the first-person footage from that one. 4) Internazionale’s Ivan Perisic is reportedly in trouble for playing professional volleyball, losing to Brazilian duo Alvaro Morais Filho and Saymon Barbosa Santos as part of a Croatia team with Niksa Dell’Orco. He lost to the Brazilian team in straight sets, 21-10, 21-10. In other footballers playing the wrong sport news, Paolo Maldini – all 49 years of him – has ventured into professional tennis. Here he is in the orange, losing heavily 6-1, 6-1 to Poland’s Tomasz Bednarek and Dutchman David Pel in a doubles match on the ATP Challenger circuit, in a match that lasted just 42 minutes. 5) Peter Sagan has been kicked off the Tour de France after his involvement in a nasty crash with Mark Cavendish on stage two on Tuesday. It is two years to http://www.officialcelticsproshop.com/Jae_Crowder_Jersey the day since a massive crash involving 20 riders on the 2015 Tour, which forced six competitors – some travelling at over 50mph – to withdraw from the race due to injury

Romelu Lukaku was due to have his medical in Los Angeles on Thursday night before Brett Favre Youth Jersey sealing a ￡75m move to Manchester United, with the striker expected to join José Mourinho’s squad when they arrive in the city on Sunday for the club’s five-game pre-season tour of America. Lukaku has been holidaying in California with United’s Paul Pogba, who is a good friend and who has the same agent, Mino Raiola. The 24-year-old was due to fly back to England on Friday for pre-season training with Everton. However, as Mourinho is intent that Lukaku should be confirmed as United’s second summer signing as soon as possible, the manager has decided this is the best way to push the transfer through. The move means that, barring a last-minute hitch, United will have landed Lukaku ahead of Chelsea despite the west London club believing they were in pole position to prise him from Everton. Chelsea maintained the stance even after news broke on Thursday that United were sure they were closing in on the player. If Lukaku does complete the transfer he will follow Victor Lindelof, the central defender who moved from Benfica to United for ￡30m last month. Mourinho is still intent on adding a central midfielder and, possibly, a wide forward. Wayne Rooney is expected to leave United for Everton, with his presence on the flight to the west coast on Sunday in the balance. Transfer window 2017 – every deal in Europe's top five leagues Read more Scoring goals was United’s biggest problem last season as they ended the league campaign with 54, comfortably the lowest of the top seven sides. The top http://www.officialsfalconsauthenticshop.com/Brian_Poole_Jersey_Cheapthree all scored more than 80 goals and United’s inability to see off teams led to damaging home draws against Swansea City, West Bromwich Albion, Bournemouth, Hull City, West Ham, Burnley and Stoke City. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored 17 goals in the league – Juan Mata was the second highest scorer on six – but the Swede ruptured a ligament against Anderlecht in April and was not offered a new contract. United were interested in signing Antoine Griezmann but the French forward decided to stay at Atlético Madrid. Antonio Conte had identified Lukaku early on as his replacement for Diego Costa, with their confidence forged on a belief that the Belgium striker’s preference has always been to rejoin the club he left in 2014 for ￡28m. Atlético Madrid are expected to make a bid for the Spain forward, though it remains to be seen whether they match Chelsea’s valuation. Losing out on Lukaku would represent a significant blow and place further strain on Conte’s relationship with the board. Reports in Belgium have suggested the manager http://www.footballpanthershop.com/Chris_Scott_Jersey_Cheaphas spoken to Lukaku in recent weeks, outlining where he sees him in his plans and stressing the player’s significance to Chelsea’s approach. Conte had envisaged the deal being completed before his squad return for pre-season training on Monday. He has been frustrated by Chelsea’s inability to add to his squad, with only Willy Caballero, on a free transfer from Manchester City, confirmed. Romelu Lukaku: ￡75m is never a bargain but Everton striker is worth it Read more Asmir Begovic, Nathan Aké, Tammy Abraham and John Terry have departed, either on permanent or long-term loan deals. Conte, who infuriated the hierarchy by texting Costa to inform him he was no longer in his plans, has pinned much on Lukaku’s addition, and the onus is now on the board to lodge a bid with Everton. The alternative options for Chelsea would be álvaro Morata, whom United had targeted only to drop their interest after Real Madrid refused to lower their asking price of €90m (￡79m), or the Torino forward Andrea Belotti. United are Chris Harris Jr Youth Jersey still hoping to sign Nemanja Matic from Chelsea but that deal may not go through if United complete the Lukaku signing. United are prepared to pay ￡40m for the Serbia midfielder but the Premier League champions are not ready to sanction that sale before they have signed Tiemoué Bakayoko from Monaco. Chelsea have agreed a fee with Roma to sign the Germany defender Antonio Rüdiger

The Goodison Park roof was not quite wrenched from its fittings when Wayne Rooney made his return to Everton colours but perhaps it loosened enough to sow the seeds for what passed two years later. Rooney had felt some apprehension before donning the kit for Duncan Ferguson’s testimonial in August 2015, aware that his presence had hardly been greeted with universal joy on those annual visits with Manchester United; when it came around, though, the applause was warm and the chants from the Gwladys Street Stand were lusty enough. If nothing else, it suggested that on both sides the old feelings might not be so difficult to reawaken. It is a safe bet that the decibel levels will be far higher when Rooney steps out for Everton against Stoke on 12 August, assuming throats have soothed since a home friendly with Sevilla the weekend before. Everton’s support had, broadly, been split over the notion that a player whose departure in 2004 left long-term scars might sign back on with the winter of his career nearing; the likelihood of a reunion grew steadily since that toe was dipped back into the water at Goodison and there is a sense now that a picturebook development of this kind should be embraced. Rooney has played that side of things well – “I’ve kept it quiet for the last 13 years but I’ve been wearing Everton pyjamas at home with my kids,” Aaron Donald Womens Jersey he told the club’s in-house television channel after his transfer was confirmed – and only a minority of hardliners in Liverpool’s blue half would doubt his authenticity. More pertinent is what exactly Rooney can offer and what he represents. The improvements wrought by Ronald Koeman last season have been followed up on by sharp use of Farhad Moshiri’s funds and a keen anticipation of the post-Romelu Lukaku era. 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Practically, his greatest use might lie in the versatility that has been as much a curse as a blessing in recent seasons; Rooney has more than enough quality to influence games from across the forward line or playing behind a centre‑forward, even if only in bursts. Over a long campaign, that blend of experience and adaptability should have ample benefits. All of this is to second-guess Koeman’s intentions for Rooney but also to speak blindly of Rooney’s own plans. It is clear he wishes to play more football but the end he is aiming for may supersede everything else. Winning silverware with Everton would be “the pinnacle”, Authentic A'Shawn Robinson Womens Jersey he said – the crowning point in a career that has brought 11 major titles. Not everybody in the squad will feel that way, at least not as viscerally. Rooney has changed in the past 13 years but Everton are changing quickly, too; should their stadium move to Bramley Moore dock go through in the next half-decade, their identity will have morphed decisively from that of the club that had never held serious hope of seeing their prodigal son’s best years. He embodies, albeit in the most interrupted of ways, continuity; the value of somebody for whom the badge signifies everything, and who just happens to be England’s best player of this millennium, should transcend the pitch. “We should be winning trophies and I think we’re taking steps to being involved in trying to win some,” Rooney said. 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We thought we didn’t know our future long-term but in the short Amos Youth Jersey term we thought we were safe, so the news was a massive shock.” England’s Euros adventure can deliver glory abroad and lasting impact at home Read more Thrown into disarray, which the midfielder Danielle Buet said had left her “jobless and homeless”, all the players had to make decisions about their future. Those selected for Mark Sampson’s Euro 2017 squad – Jo Potter, Carly Telford, Jade Moore and Bassett – had to make those choices fast. Although not a normal season, the Spring Series, which filled the gap as the Women’s Super League shifted to a winter season, was a chance for players to get crucial competitive game time before the summer’s tournament. The goalkeeper Telford quickly rejoined Chelsea and midfielders Potter and Moore were snapped up by Reading, but Bassett paused for thought. This was the third time a club she has played for has collapsed, following Leeds and Birmingham. 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It was her own goal, when the ball bounced off the underside of the crossbar and over the line from an attempted clearance in the 92nd minute, that sealed England’s semi-final defeat by Japan at the 2015 World Cup. It was impossible to not absorb some of the inconsolable defender’s heartbreak as she sobbed into her shirt at the final whistle. England’s heroic performance and third-place finish at least helped to heal the wound. “Looking back I think the bronze medal game [in which England beat Germany 1-0] was the best thing that could have happened for me personally and for the team,” she says. “Yes, it’s a motivation, but no one steps on the football field wanting that to happen. I’m a positive person and we want to show that we’re really resilientThis time things are different; England are no longer the surprise package. They are one of the favourites and the devastation they felt in 2015 is driving their quest to lift the trophy. 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It’s a strategy that has led to many coaches falling out of favour with players, but there is a trust between the Lionesses and their manager that sees them thrive. “It’s certainly shown that it’s worked for us,” Bassett says. “We all believe in each other and believe that we can all bring something different. We’re fiercely competitive but we are also a very close-knit group. We believe that the player Mark picks is the best person to do the job, and they will leave the England shirt in a better place than it was before.” Rachel Yankey: ‘There aren’t enough female managers. Barriers need to be broken down’ Read more England beat a decent Denmark side 2-1 in their final pre-tournament friendly on Saturday, with Ellen White scoring both goals. Whether they can compete against the top teams such as Germany and France is another question. Although England defeated the USA, the World Cup winners, in the She Believes Cup in March, they fell short against those European sides. This was another vital part of the team’s long-term development, says Bassett. “Having played those games we know exactly what we need to do if we face them in the Euros. If we hadn’t played those sides in over a year we’d have questions, whereas now we know what stifled them and we also know what we need to do to get results against them.” With the tournament being broadcast on Channel 4, the players are hopeful the country will take to their campaign as it did the World Cup. “I think the nation fell in love with us as a team, as Lionesses, and our personalities,” Bassett says. “I just hope now we get that Jeff Driskel Womens Jersey right from the opening game against Scotland and not halfway through like in 2015. It meant so much to us all and really did drive us and give an extra edge to our performances.” Bassett’s story is a powerful one. 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